• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

2011 TC 449 Suspension set up

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Maybroda345

Husqvarna
A Class
I inquired on this website as to what mx set up was being used for the 449 because the bike definitely felt unbalanced and very "stink buggy" to me in stock form. So I decided to list what I did to mine with huge improvements especially in handling. First both ends got the stage 2 MX valving from Pro Action. The rear shock was lowered 4mm at the shaft and the forks where brought up into the triples to the second line (10mm) The bike is definietly more planted and even now and corners much. much better. I am 6'2 at 205 so 49's up front spring rate and 5'4 rear. The bike is very Rear height sensitive and notice as you start spending fuel the bike starts to handle differently due to the tank is right over the rear wheel I believe. So with the tank toped off I decided on 115mm race sag. This seems tobe where the bike is happiest with enough margin to be within 108 to 115mm at any given time. The last thing i did which for me made the package fit was Fastway evo3 footpegs in the low position. Much better grip with my knees this way and actually helps quite a bit with hitting the rear brake peddle. Have had a few times where I had missed it in stock form. This bike is awesome just need to take the time to figure her out. Not a lot of R & D done on this bike and rumor has it Husky is changed the 449 completely in 2013. Thought this might help someone else.
 
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